Improved appaeatus foe coohm and pbeseeying feuits



PATENTED MAR. 19, 1367.

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attire tstrs WILLIAM JANNEY, 0F MARTINS VILLE, OHIO.

Letz Patentlt'a. 62,960, dates? Moral: is, 1867.

IMPROVED APPARATUS'FOR oooinue'suo ,PBESEHVLNG FRUITS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY oonortnu;

Be it known that I, WILLIAM JARNEY, of Martinsville, Clinton county, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful improvement in Fruit Paris, of which the following is a full and clear description reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates toa new device to prepare fruit for canning purposes by steaming it, in connection with a, common cook stove, pvoiding brooking, scorching, or destroying the flavor.

Figure 1 represents in perspective a stove iwithmy improvement upon-it. Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view of lay improved fruit puns. A is the stove, upon which, in place, is the steam ohest- B constructed of wood. 0 is a, vessel to receive the fruit pun D, which has the cover E. Fis a pipe tov convey steam from vessel G to steam chest .13.. The

steam chest'B is made of wood, and is placed upon the stove, or at any convenientplace near the stove, for the purpose of receiving the fruit cans to be steamed previous tothe fruit being placed in them. At the some time the fru'rt'is introduced iiatofruit pan 1), which is divided into two compartments, the open partition G sepa r'eting -them,and-permitting the water in the vessel G te freely circulate about as well as beneath the (double) fruitpan D. Thewater in the vessel C does not risetothe top so as to fill it when the fruit pan D is in place and filled with fruit, but only so far as to leave room for the accumulation of alarge bulk of steam. From near the top of vessel 0 proceeds thesteam pipe F. The fruit in the pan D is gradually heated throughout the mass without removiilg cover E, or in any way disturbing the contents, usually done by stirring, until the time arrives for canning. The cans having been in the mean time heating, they are filled from the fruit pen 1), care being taken to prepare only such a quantity of fruit as will fill the cans the cans are then sealed. By

the above process the fruit retains its plump form and flavor to a much greater extent than by the usual mode of putting up canned fruit.

Having fully described my improved fruit pan, the.uses of its various parts, and advantages over those now. in use, I make the following claims, which I desire to secure by Letters Patent: I

1. The fruit pun D -inacombination with vessel 0, as above described, and for the purpose set forth. 2. The steam chest B, pipe F, andwessel C, in' combination with fruit pan D, for the purposes shove specified.

WILLIAM JANNEY. 

